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# TypeScript Rules
For TypeScript or modern ECMAScript work, open only the topic rules relevant to the task. Load applicable framework and shared security rules as well.
| Topic | Codex rule | Claude skill |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Types and data modeling | `references/types-and-modeling.md` | `rules-typescript-types-and-modeling` |
| Coding style and control flow | `references/coding-style.md` | `rules-typescript-coding-style` |
| Runtime validation and browser safety | `references/runtime-safety.md` | `rules-typescript-runtime-safety` |
| Security-specific implementation | `references/security.md` | `rules-typescript-security` |
| Async work and resource lifetime | `references/async-and-resources.md` | `rules-typescript-async-and-resources` |
| Performance | `references/performance.md` | `rules-typescript-performance` |
| Modules, APIs, and dependencies | `references/modules-and-dependencies.md` | `rules-typescript-modules-and-dependencies` |
| Tests, diagnostics, and maintenance | `references/testing-and-quality.md` | `rules-typescript-testing-and-quality` |
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# TypeScript Async Work and Resources
Apply these rules when implementing promises, I/O, streams, subscriptions, timers, or other long-lived work.
* Handle every rejected promise. Do not leave floating promises; for intentional fire-and-forget work, attach error handling and make its owner and lifetime explicit.
* Use `await` when sequencing or error handling depends on completion. Use `Promise.all` only for independent, bounded work that can safely run together.
* Limit concurrency for large workloads with a queue or limiter. Apply backpressure to streams and producer/consumer flows instead of buffering without a bound.
* Support cancellation with `AbortSignal` when callers need to stop I/O or long-running work. Propagate it through nested calls and release resources when cancellation occurs.
* Avoid synchronous blocking and long CPU-bound work on the Node.js event loop or browser main thread. Move substantial CPU work to a worker or split it into bounded tasks when measurements justify it.
* Remove event listeners, timers, subscriptions, streams, and abort handlers when their owner is done. Avoid retaining closures or resources beyond their intended lifetime.
* Keep shared mutable state safe and deterministic when asynchronous operations can overlap. Prevent stale responses from overwriting newer state when request ordering matters.
* Retry only failures known to be transient, with bounded attempts and delay. Preserve idempotency and cancellation; avoid multiplying retries across layers.
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# TypeScript Coding Style
Apply these rules when changing TypeScript syntax, control flow, or everyday code organization.
* Follow the project's established architecture, formatter, lint rules, and module conventions.
* Prefer `const`; use `let` only when reassignment is needed and avoid `var`.
* Keep functions and modules focused. Prefer early returns and shallow control flow over deeply nested branches or oversized functions.
* Prefer explicit, predictable behavior over implicit coercion, hidden side effects, or overly abstract helpers.
* Use strict equality. Handle `null` and `undefined` intentionally and do not use `||` when `0`, `false`, or an empty string is a valid value.
* Use optional chaining and nullish coalescing where they clarify behavior; avoid mixing nullish conventions without a project reason.
* Keep naming descriptive and consistent. Avoid vague names and abbreviations unless they are established domain terms.
* Remove dead code and unused imports. Do not add comments unless the user asks or a project rule requires them.
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# TypeScript Modules and Dependencies
Apply these rules when changing package dependencies, module structure, imports, or public exports.
* Follow the project's existing module system consistently; avoid mixing ESM and CommonJS without a compatibility need.
* Keep modules focused and boundaries intentional. Avoid circular dependencies and unnecessary public exports.
* Separate transport models from domain logic where that boundary exists. Do not leak implementation details through public APIs.
* Prefer built-in platform APIs or installed packages before adding a dependency. Keep dependencies minimal, supported, and compatible with the lockfile.
* Review package identity, maintenance, transitive dependencies, permissions, lifecycle scripts, and update behavior before adopting a package. Pin or constrain versions according to project policy and commit the package manager's lockfile.
* Avoid broad dependency upgrades unrelated to the task. Do not hand-edit generated lockfile content; regenerate it with the intended package manager and verify the resulting diff.
* Do not treat bundled frontend configuration as secret storage. Anything shipped to a browser is observable by users.
* Remove unused imports and exports, and keep path and export conventions consistent with the surrounding code.
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# TypeScript Performance
Apply these rules when optimizing TypeScript runtime, rendering, or memory use.
* Establish a baseline using representative data, devices, concurrency, and runtime versions. Measure the user-visible path and its latency distribution, throughput, memory, and CPU cost as relevant.
* Prioritize architecture, network and API usage, database access, algorithms, rendering, concurrency, allocations, then CPU micro-optimizations. Confirm that the suspected layer dominates before changing it.
* Avoid quadratic scans and repeated full collection passes for large inputs. Choose `Map`, `Set`, or an indexed lookup when it reduces measured repeated work and its memory cost is acceptable.
* Avoid unnecessary object spreading, intermediate arrays, copies, deep clones, and serialization in hot paths. Do not replace clear code with opaque loops without measured benefit.
* In browsers, reduce unnecessary component updates and DOM work; virtualize large lists when rendering all rows is costly. Avoid memoization that adds stale-state or invalidation bugs.
* In Node.js, keep CPU-heavy synchronous work from blocking the event loop. Stream large payloads and bound queues, buffers, and concurrent requests.
* Prefer platform APIs over custom low-level code or dependencies. Use `structuredClone` only when a deep clone is required and its data constraints are met.
* Cache only repeated measurable work, with bounded size, explicit keys, expiry/invalidation, and safe treatment of user- or tenant-specific data.
* Do not add batching or parallelism without preserving ordering, cancellation, rate limits, and failure behavior. Measure end-to-end results after the change.
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# TypeScript Runtime Safety
Apply these rules when handling API payloads, user input, browser data, or other values outside the type system.
* Treat external values as `unknown` until validated. TypeScript annotations and assertions do not validate runtime data.
* Validate untrusted data at system boundaries before storing it, using it for authorization, or passing it to sensitive operations. Use schema validation when external contracts are complex.
* Handle `null` and `undefined` intentionally, and narrow values before use. Avoid implicit coercion and unsafe dynamic property access.
* Prefer allowlists for security-sensitive input. Prevent prototype pollution when merging untrusted objects; avoid unsafe recursive merges and dynamic writes to ordinary object prototypes.
* Treat URL, path, header, query, and redirect destinations as untrusted. Server-side fetches must restrict schemes and destinations, validate every redirect, and enforce response size and timeout limits.
* Use framework-safe text binding and automatic output encoding. Avoid `innerHTML`, `dangerouslySetInnerHTML`, and equivalent escape hatches unless sanitized content is required and a maintained sanitizer is applied.
* For cookie-based authentication, preserve secure cookie attributes and the application's CSRF protections. Do not store authentication secrets in browser-accessible storage without an explicit threat model and security design.
* Never expose secrets or sensitive data in output, logs, or errors. Client-side validation and route guards do not replace server-side authentication, authorization, or validation.
* Bound input size, nesting, parsing work, and response size before processing untrusted JSON or other structured data.
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# TypeScript Security
Apply these rules when implementing or reviewing security-sensitive TypeScript code. Load the matching shared security rule for the affected API, identity, data, browser, file, network, cryptographic, or dependency boundary as well.
* Validate external data at runtime before using it in authorization decisions, database operations, filesystem access, or privileged actions. A type assertion is not validation.
* Enforce authentication, authorization, tenant scoping, and input validation on the server. Browser checks, hidden controls, route guards, and TypeScript types do not create a security boundary.
* Keep credentials and private keys on trusted servers. Never embed secrets in frontend bundles, source maps, browser storage, or public runtime configuration.
* Use cryptographically secure platform randomness for tokens and security-sensitive identifiers. Do not use `Math.random()` for secrets, session values, or authorization codes.
* Use parameterized database APIs and allowlists for dynamic identifiers. Avoid constructing SQL, shell commands, HTML, or other interpreted input by string concatenation.
* For server-side URL fetching, restrict protocols and destinations, validate redirects, and bound time, response size, and concurrency to reduce SSRF and resource-exhaustion risk.
* Use the framework's safe output encoding and preserve CSP, TLS, cookie, and CSRF protections. Do not disable these controls to make a request or test pass.
* Review untrusted object merges for prototype pollution, unsafe deserialization, and mass assignment. Copy only fields the caller is allowed to control.
* Review dependency additions and upgrades for source, package identity, install scripts, transitive risk, and lockfile changes.
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# TypeScript Testing and Quality
Apply these rules when changing tests, lint configuration, compiler diagnostics, or maintainability checks.
* Prefer behavior-based tests that assert externally observable results. Avoid coupling tests to private implementation details.
* Keep tests deterministic. Control time, randomness, filesystem state, and external services when they affect the result.
* Mock external boundaries or expensive dependencies only when needed; avoid mocks that merely restate implementation details.
* Treat TypeScript, compiler, and lint diagnostics seriously. Do not suppress errors globally or use `@ts-ignore` to hide a real type problem.
* Use `@ts-expect-error` only for an intentional, narrow case whose expected error is part of the test or contract.
* Keep code easy to test through clear module boundaries without adding test-only production exports or hooks without a concrete reason.
* Run focused tests, type checks, and lint for changed paths. Expand checks when shared contracts or generated types are affected.
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# TypeScript Types and Modeling
Apply these rules when defining TypeScript types, public function contracts, or domain data models.
* Prefer `strict: true`, precise types, and `unknown` for values whose shape has not been validated. Avoid `any`, broad assertions, and non-null assertions that hide uncertainty.
* Model variants with discriminated unions and use literal unions for constrained values. Make invalid states difficult to represent.
* Prefer `readonly` and immutable data when mutation is unnecessary. Use interfaces for implementation contracts or declaration merging; use type aliases for unions and compositions.
* Give exported APIs, callbacks, and non-trivial functions explicit contracts; rely on inference for simple local values where it keeps code clearer.
* Derive types from trusted existing contracts or generated sources instead of duplicating backend schemas manually. Regenerate generated contracts from their source rather than hand-editing them.
* Keep generic constraints meaningful and types readable. Avoid deep conditional or mapped types when a simpler model expresses the contract.
* Keep compile-time types aligned with runtime schemas. If a schema changes, update its inferred types and tests so the two do not silently drift.
* Avoid representing authorization state, validation success, or trusted input using a type assertion alone. Construct trusted values only after the required checks succeed.